(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under this chapter.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-8

  • Employer: means any individual or organization, including the State, any of its political subdivisions, any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who employs one hundred or more employees for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-1
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any employer to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any individual for opposing any practice made unlawful by this chapter.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any individual because the individual has:

(1) Filed any charge, or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this chapter;
(2) Given or is about to give any information in connection with any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this chapter; or
(3) Testified or is about to testify in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this chapter.
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